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GOP lawmakers, Edwards clashing over Louisiana election plan

by Associated Press
| August 19, 2020 2:03 PM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers Wednesday plowed ahead with a contested emergency plan to run the state's fall elections during the pandemic, setting up a looming clash with Gov. John Bel Edwards who intends to jettison the plan if it reaches his desk.

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